Dream Word

Last night my unconscious mind created the following word and definition:

anchinth—an archaic term for anxiety.

For a Good Time, Call . . .

Sandra Beasley!

Now that poem is alive!

Queries

What's going on with Michael Jordan's new Hitler mustache? Doesn't he have personal advisors to keep him from making such ill-considered moves? Didn't anyone at Hanes or their ad agency balk at it? And why haven't the good, snarky folks at Deadspin addressed this yet?

As I look further into this, I realize this ad campaign first ran in May. Why hasn't Hanes pulled it? Does a retired basketball player with facial hair stolen from the fuhrer really help move men's underwear?

Line of the Week

"Everything that distinguishes our era from the dark ages—since we still have plagues and torture chambers—is what we've been able to do with petroleum, and that is going to end very soon."

—Kurt Vonnegut, as quoted in Steve Almond's Not That You Asked